Social Psychology of Attraction and Relationships
Discover Yourself, Build Relationships, and Navigate Groups
PsycLearn Essentials
October 2024
If you’ve ever wanted to understand how interpersonal relationships work, this is the course for you. You’ll start by learning how you decide what other people are like and the mistakes you might make when learning about people. Then, you’ll learn about the factors that determine whether you like other people, and whether they like you. The course then switches to talk about relationships, including what makes a relationship satisfying (or not), how love operates in friendships and romantic relationships, and how people decide whether they should stay in or leave their relationships. In short, this course will take you through the entire lifecycle of a relationship, as well as offer advice at each stage that will help you form, develop, and maintain satisfying relationships.
Learning objectives
- Describe foundational concepts in the way psychology understands relationships.
- Explain how we form impressions of other people.
- Identify how each of the four determinants of initial attraction works.
- Explain the nature of love.
- Use different models of relationships to predict whether a relationship will be satisfying or not.
- Explain the processes involved in terminating relationships.
This program does not offer CE credit.
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